Description
Greenwich is the riverside district of southeast London that gave its name to the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time: royal palaces, a famous clipper ship, a hilltop observatory and a Georgian town center, together a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Along the Thames rises the Old Royal Naval College, Christopher Wren's domed masterpiece, with the Painted Hall by James Thornhill. Behind it are the National Maritime Museum and the Queen's House by Inigo Jones, the first Palladian building in England. Greenwich Park climbs to the Royal Observatory, and the Cutty Sark sits by the river.
In the town center, Georgian and Victorian streets surround the covered Greenwich Market. Next to the Cutty Sark, a round building leads down to the Greenwich foot tunnel, which has run under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs since 1902.
Before the college there was a Tudor palace, Placentia, where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born. Long before that, Danish raiders camped on the hill for three years and held the Archbishop of Canterbury prisoner here.
Along the Thames rises the Old Royal Naval College, Christopher Wren's domed masterpiece, with the Painted Hall by James Thornhill. Behind it are the National Maritime Museum and the Queen's House by Inigo Jones, the first Palladian building in England. Greenwich Park climbs to the Royal Observatory, and the Cutty Sark sits by the river.
In the town center, Georgian and Victorian streets surround the covered Greenwich Market. Next to the Cutty Sark, a round building leads down to the Greenwich foot tunnel, which has run under the Thames to the Isle of Dogs since 1902.
Before the college there was a Tudor palace, Placentia, where Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born. Long before that, Danish raiders camped on the hill for three years and held the Archbishop of Canterbury prisoner here.